In this episode, I speak with Katie Law, the creator and manager of Chicago Greeter, a free visitor service for the City of Chicago that taps locals to highlight what they love about their city and share it with visitors. Katie shares her experience of moving from the West Coast to attend the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and why she decided to remain in Chicago. She also discusses her experience of creating and managing Chicago Greeter.

In this episode, I speak with Eliza Fournier from the Chicago Botanic Garden's Windy City Harvest department about the ways that they promote urban agriculture in Chicago.

For more information about topics discussed in this episode, please check out the following:

Farm on Ogden

VeggieRx

Windy City Harvest Apprenticeship

Windy City Harvest Collaborations

In this episode, I talk with Jenny Vyas, a Chicago-based artist, about her work and her perspective of living in Chicago. Her art is influenced by the beauty in complex emotions and in the human condition. Her art emerged from the darkest period in her life, and it explores vulnerability to bring healing to herself and hopefully to others.

In this episode, I speak with Luis Gusto, the Chicago-based creator of the Luis Gusto YouTube channel that features travel-related content about Chicago and other cities around the world. We talk about Luis' love for Chicago that led him to move here and to start his YouTube channel.

In this episode, I speak with Shane O'Mara, a professor of Experimental Brain Research at Trinity College, Dublin - the University of Dublin. He is a psychologist, neuroscientist, and writer whose book In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration is a fascinating look at the benefits of walking. Shane is an avid walker who loves to explore cities on foot.

In this episode, I talk with Laura Hilton Brown, the Program Manager for the London Transport Museum's Hidden London tours which offer the opportunity to explore parts of subterranean London. Laura is also one of four members of the team that deliver the Hidden London Hangouts, a weekly YouTube series that explores secrets spaces of London's transport system.

In this episode, I speak with Larry Shure, a Planner for the City of Chicago who specializes in historic preservation, about his experience of working with historic preservation in Chicago. Larry also discusses his Ultra Local Geography blog which looks at common neighborhood building types.

In this episode, I speak with my brother-in-law Nick Doyle, a librarian who lives in the Columbia, South Carolina area about his love of cities, especially New York and Chicago, and how that informs his lifestyle in the Columbia area.

In this episode, I speak with Leigh DeForth, a Comprehensive Planner for the City of Columbia, South Carolina, my home from 2009 to 2017, about Walk Bike Columbia, a comprehensive public planning process that provides a long-term vision for walking, bicycling, and transit as well as a plan to guide Columbia in realizing this vision.

In this episode, I speak with Cyril, a native New Yorker and a second generation Chinese-American, who grew up in Brooklyn and lives in Queens about his perspective of New York City.